4CaaSt is a 15-million-Euro EU-funded initiative (EU grant agreement 258862) funded by the 7th FWP (Seventh Framework Programme) under the Internet of Services, Software & virtualisation (ICT-2009.1.2) area, aimed at creating an advanced PaaS Cloud platform which supports the optimized and elastic hosting of Internet-scale multi-tier applications. 4CaaSt embeds all the necessary features, easing programming of rich applications and enabling the creation of a true business ecosystem where applications coming from different providers can be tailored to different users, mashed up and traded together.
The 4CaaSt project brings together a consortium of Europe’s leading experts in cloud computing, including UPM, 2nd Quadrant Limited, BonitaSoft, Bull SAS, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo, Ericsson GMBH, FlexiScale, France Telecom, Universitat St Gallen, ICCS/NTUA, Nokia Siemens Networks, SAP AG, Telecom Italia, UCM (DSA-Research), Universitaet Stuutgart, UvT-EISS, and ZIB. OpenNebula will provide the EU FP7 project with a powerful technoloy to build IaaS clouds supporting automatic scaling of resources to run the business use-case scenarios in real world conditions. This news consolidates OpenNebula’s position at the cutting edge of cloud computing technology worldwide, following an announcement two months ago of its adoption in the EU’s StratusLab project, aimed at bringing cloud and virtualization to grid computing.
OpenNebula is the leading and most advanced framework for cloud computing, with excellent performance and scalability to manage tens of thousands of VMs. OpenNebula is the result of many years of research and development in efficient and scalable management of virtual machines on large-scale distributed infrastructures. Its innovative features have been developed to address the requirements of business use cases from leading companies in the context of flagship European projects in cloud computing. OpenNebula is being used as an open platform for innovation in several international projects to research the challenges that arise in cloud management, and also as production-ready tool in both academia and industry to manage clouds.
Has open nebula PaaS capabilities besides the option to run a VMI with an PaaS programming/runtime environment?
OpenNebula focuses on IaaS cloud computing, and in the context of the 4CaaSt project is working to provide a fully elastic environment to run PaaS environments.